Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:12:20 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: <chris@aims.com.au> Cc: "'Nate Williams'" <nate@yogotech.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux? Message-ID: <15365.3300.905293.374565@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <004101c177ee$15a9dce0$020aa8c0@aims.private> References: <004101c177ee$15a9dce0$020aa8c0@aims.private>
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> As a follow-up, I've just checked the newreno setting on the boxes I > experienced the problems with - newreno is on. > I'll try turning it off and see if I experience any problems. BTW, what does > it do exactly? It's supposed to make performance of resends/ACKs better in the case of packet loss. > Also, a query on my timesheets shows that I had the same FTP problems on a > FreeBSD 3.2 box with the dc driver talking to an NT4 Terminal Server with > onboard Intel 8255x controller via a 10/100 hub (full duplex), and also a > FreeBSD 4.0 box with the rl driver talking to an NT4 Terminal Server with > onboard Intel 8255x controller via a 10Mbit/s hub (full duplex). Disabling > autonegotiation on the FreeBSD NIC fixed it. Only FTP was affected in both > cases - SMTP, HTTP and SSH were all fine. I've got HTTP problems as well, although as I stated before, that might be a configuration issue. FTP is certainly effected. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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